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    Folio: Amours en fuite
    The Reader
    La Contrebasse
    Flights of Love
    The Castle
    Meditation
    • Folio: Amours en fuite

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Comment les amours naissent et finissent, quels détours elles empruntent pour s'abuser et se désabuser, se tromper et se détromper, voilà ce qu'éprouvent les sept protagonistes masculins de ces récits, souvent face à des femmes plus lucides et plus courageuses. Ces sept histoires sont de véritables romans, dont chacun met en jeu une vie entière.

      Folio: Amours en fuite2002
      3.3
    • Flights of Love

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Schlink, internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of "The Reader, " brings a sleek concision and moral acuity to these seven tales of modern men uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. Brooding, comic, and filled with psychological suspense, "Plights of Love" is nothing less than masterful.

      Flights of Love2001
      3.8
    • The Reader

      • 244 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      At the age of fifteen, Michael Berg falls in love with a woman who disappears, and while observing a trial as a law student years later, he is shocked to discover the same woman as the defendant in a horrible crime.

      The Reader1999
      3.7
    • The Castle

      • 390 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.

      The Castle1993
      4.0
    • La Contrebasse

      • 92 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      La contrebasse est l'instrument le plus gros, le plus puissant et le plus indispensable de l'orchestre, le plus beau aussi, dit d'abord le contrebassiste. Mais bientôt l'éloge pompeux laisse affleurer les frustrations et les rancoeurs du musicien et de l'homme. Et peu à peu la haine d'abord refoulée de cette encombrante compagne s'exprime, se déchaîne et explose jusqu'à la folie... Ce monologue tragique et drôle, par l'auteur du best-seller Le Parfum, tient l'affiche en Allemagne depuis des années. Interprété à Paris par Jacques Villeret, il a reçu un accueil triomphal.

      La Contrebasse1989
      3.8
    • Meditation

      • 79 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Kafka's first published book (1913), Contemplation is composed of eighteen "prose poems," displaying the full range of Kafka's compact metaphorical style. In this new translation, Kevin Blahut has been faithful to the original German while rendering it in a fresh, contemporary English. This edition is complemented by 18 black & white illustrations, attesting to the lasting inspiration of Kafka's prose.

      Meditation1988
      4.1